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FEBRUARY 2017

INDEX METHODOLOGY

BETA ADVANTAGE SUSTAINABLE US EQUITY INCOME 100 INDEX

February 2017

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BETA ADVANTAGE SUSTAINABLE US EQUITY INCOME 100 INDEX | FEBRUARY 2017

1 Introduction ................................................................................ 3

2 Index Construction Methodology ................................................ 4

2.1 Defining the Eligible Universe .................................................................. 4

2.2 Determination of the Factor Score .......................................................... 4

2.2.1 Calculating Percentile Score For Each Individual Factor ...................................4

2.2.2 Calculating the Composite Factor Score ...........................................................5

2.3 Security Selection and Weighting Scheme ............................................... 6

3 Maintaining the Index ................................................................. 7

3.1 Quarterly and Semi-Annual Index Reviews .............................................. 7

3.1.1 Buffer Rules .......................................................................................................7

3.2 Ongoing Event Related changes ............................................................... 7

3.2.1 IPOs and Other Early Inclusions ........................................................................7

3.2.2 Additions and Deletions Due to Corporate Events ...........................................7

Appendix I: Corporate Events Treatment ........................................... 8

CONTENTS



1 INTRODUCTION

MSCI Indexes are constructed and maintained in accordance with the MSCI Global

Investable Market Indexes Methodology and calculated as per the MSCI Index Calculation

Methodology. This methodology book provides a description of the rules and guidelines

followed by MSCI for the construction and maintenance of the Beta Advantage Sustainable

U.S. Equity Income 100 Index, which aims to reflect the performance of a Columbia

Investment Advisers, LLC. strategy.

The Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index (herein, “Index”) is designed

to represent the performance of companies in all developed markets that historically have

demonstrated relatively higher as well as sustainable levels of income within the Parent

Index universe of securities.



2 INDEX CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY

2.1 DEFINING THE ELIGIBLE UNIVERSE

The Parent Index includes all securities belonging to the MSCI USA Index, excluding

securities classified in the Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts Industry and Mortgage Real

Estate Investment Trusts Sub-Industry as per the Global Industry Classification Standard

(GICS®). Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have structurally very high dividend yield and,

if included, would represent a disproportionate share of the Index. All securities belonging

to the Parent Index are eligible for inclusion in the Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity

Income 100 Index.

Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index also considers the following

screens: -

Dividend Yield screen: Include all the securities with a current annualized dividend yield

greater than or equal to 1%

For more details on Dividend Yield calculation, please refer to

https://www.msci.com/eqb/methodology/meth_docs/MSCI_Fundamental_Data.pdf

ESG Screen: Exclude securities with MSCI ESG Rating of BB or below

For more details on MSCI ESG Ratings, please refer to

www.msci.com/resources/factsheets/MSCI_ESG_IVA.pdf

In addition, securities with no coverage for the underlying factor descriptor variables as

defined in section 2.2.1 are excluded from the eligible universe.

2.2 DETERMINATION OF THE FACTOR SCORE

2.2.1 CALCULATING PERCENTILE SCORE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL FACTOR

The percentile score for each factor is defined as sector relative percentile score; it is

computed by standardizing the factor descriptor values within each sector group as per the

existing Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) structure.

𝑃sec_rel = 𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑥

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒

Where:

𝑃sec_rel is the sector relative percentile score for a factor descriptor

𝑥 is the individual descriptor value for a given security within a sector group

https://www.msci.com/eqb/methodology/meth_docs/MSCI_Feb16_Fundamental_Data.pdf

http://www.msci.com/resources/factsheets/MSCI_ESG_IVA.pdf



In case there are multiple securities with same individual factor value within a sector group,

the security with higher free float-adjusted market capitalization is assigned the higher

percentile score.

The descriptors defining each of the four factors are as follows:-

(i) Dividend Yield Factor

Current Annualized Dividend per Share/Price of Security

(ii) 1 Year Dividend per Share (DPS) Growth

The 1 Year DPS growth rate is the ratio of difference between the current and previous

annual DPS divided by previous annual DPS

1𝑌 𝐷𝑃𝑆 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ =𝐷𝑃𝑆𝑡 − 𝐷𝑃𝑆𝑡−12

𝐷𝑃𝑆𝑡−12

Where:

t is the year expressed in number of months.

For more details on DPS, Please refer to

https://www.msci.com/eqb/methodology/meth_docs/MSCI_Fundamental_Data.pdf

(iii) Cash-based Dividend Coverage Ratio

For all the securities classified in the Financials, Real Estate and Utilities Sectors as per the

Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®), the Cash-based Dividend Coverage Ratio is

defined as the last 12 months Net Income per share divided by the current annualized

Dividend per share.

For all the securities classified in a GICS Sector except those in the Financials, Real Estate and

Utilities Sectors the Cash-based Dividend Coverage Ratio is defined as the annual free Cash

Flow divided by the current annualized dividend

(iv) 3 Year Average of Cash-based Dividend Coverage Ratio

Calculated as the average percentile rank for the past 12 quarters (calculated at each

Quarter end) using the Factor defined in the Cash-based Dividend Coverage Ratio.

2.2.2 CALCULATING THE COMPOSITE FACTOR SCORE

The Composite Factor Score is computed by combining the sector relative percentile scores

for each factor as described below.

PComp = 0.30 ∗ PDiv_Yield + 0.20 ∗ PDPS Growth + 0.25 ∗ PCoverage Ratio + 0.25 ∗ P Avg. Coverage Ratio

https://www.msci.com/eqb/methodology/meth_docs/MSCI_Feb16_Fundamental_Data.pdf



Where:

PComp is the Composite Factor Score

PDiv Yield is the sector relative percentile score for Dividend Yield as calculated in the

previous section

PDPS Growth is the sector relative percentile score for Dividend per Share (DPS)

Growth as calculated in the previous section

PCoverage Ratio is the sector relative percentile score for Cash-based Dividend

Coverage Ratio as calculated in the previous section

PAvg. Coverage Ratio is the sector relative percentile score for 3 Year Average of Cash-

based Dividend Coverage Ratio as calculated in the previous section

2.3 SECURITY SELECTION AND WEIGHTING SCHEME

The Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index is constructed using a fixed number of securities approach. All the constituents of the eligible universe are ranked based on their Composite Factor Score and the 100 securities with the highest Composite Factor Score are selected. In case there are multiple securities with the same Composite Factor Score, the security having higher value of Dividend Yield Factor Score is selected. The top 100 selected securities are ranked based on the Composite Factor Score to compute Composite Factor Score rank and on the Dividend Yield Factor Score to compute Dividend Yield Factor Score rank. A final weighting rank is then computed based on the average of Composite Factor Score rank and the Dividend Yield Factor Score rank. The top 100 securities are then given weights according to its weighting rank; distributed linearly from 1.495% for weighting rank one to 0.505% for the weighting rank 100 at the time of rebalancing.



3 MAINTAINING THE INDEX

3.1 QUARTERLY AND SEMI-ANNUAL INDEX REVIEWS

The Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index is reviewed on a quarterly

basis coinciding with the May and November Semi-Annual Index Reviews and the February

and August Quarterly Index Reviews of the Parent Index. The pro forma Index typically is

announced nine business days before the effective date.

At each rebalancing, a constraint factor (CF) is calculated for each constituent in the Index.

The constraint factor is defined as the weight in the Index at the time of the rebalancing

divided by the weight in the Parent Index. The constraint factor as well as the constituents in

the Index remains constant between index reviews except in case of corporate events as

described in the Appendix I.

3.1.1 BUFFER RULES

To reduce index turnover and enhance index stability, buffer rules are applied as follows:

Security Selection Buffer

A security selection buffer of 50% is applied during the on-going Index Reviews. The Index

targets 100 securities and the buffers are applied between rank 51 and 150.

First, securities in the Parent Index with a final factor score rank at or above 50 will

be added to the Index on a priority basis.

Second, all current constituents of the Index that have a final factor score rank

between 51 and 150 are successively added until the number of securities reaches

100.

Third, if the number of securities is below 100 after this step, the remaining

securities in the Parent Index with the highest final factor score rank are added until

the number of securities in the Index reaches 100.

3.2 ONGOING EVENT RELATED CHANGES

In general, the Index follows the event maintenance of the MSCI Parent Index.

3.2.1 IPOS AND OTHER EARLY INCLUSIONS

IPOs and other newly listed securities will only be considered for inclusion at the next Index

Review, even if they qualify for early inclusion in the Parent Index.

3.2.2 ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS DUE TO CORPORATE EVENTS

A constituent deleted from the Parent Index following a corporate event will be

simultaneously deleted from the Index. Please refer to Appendix I for more details on the

treatment of corporate events.



APPENDIX I: CORPORATE EVENTS TREATMENT

This appendix describes the treatment of the corporate events in the Beta Advantage

Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index. The details regarding the treatment of all other

corporate events not covered in this appendix can be found in the MSCI Corporate Events

Methodology book, available at www.msci.com/index-methodology.

In case of merger or acquisition aggregate CF (Constraint Factor) at Index level is calculated

using the CF using the following formula:

CF =(CFa1 ∗ Wa1 + CFa2 ∗ Wa2)

(Wa1 + +Wa2)

Where, CFa1 is the constraint factor of constituent 1 in the Index, Wa1 is the weight of

constituent 1 in the Parent Index, CFa2 is the constraint factor of the constituent 2 in the

Index, Wa2 is the weight of the constituent 2 in the Parent Index .

Event Event details Action

Acquisition

Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S. Equity

Income 100 Index constituent acquires

another Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S.

Equity Income 100 Index constituent

Maintain acquiring company with a

constraint factor that is weighted average

of the two constituents as mentioned

above.


Income 100 Index constituent acquires non

constituent. Non constituent is in Parent

Index.



of the two constituents. Constraint factor

of acquired non constituent company

would be zero.


Income 100 Index constituent acquires non

constituent. Non constituent is not in the

Parent Index.



of the two constituents. Constraint factor

and weight of the acquired non

constituent company would be zero.

Non Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S.


acquiers constituent

Acquired constituent would be removed

regardless of type of acquisition by non

constituent. The acquiring company

would not be added to the Index.

Merger


Income 100 Index constituent merges with

another Beta Advantage Sustainable U.S.


Add new company with a constraint factor

that is the weighted average of the two

constituents.

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Event Event details Action



non constituent. Non constituent is in

Parent Index. Price history is linked with

constituent.



constituents. Constraint factor of non

constituent company would be zero.



non constituent. Non constituent is not in

the Parent Index. Price history is linked

with constituent.



constituents. Constraint factor and weight

of non constituent company would be

zero.



non constituent. Non constituent is not in

the Parent Index. Price history is linked

with non constituent.

New company will be considered for

inclusion in the Beta Advantage

Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index

at the next Index Review

IPO

IPO added to the Parent Index Security will be considered for the

inclusion in the Beta Advantage

Sustainable U.S. Equity Income 100 Index

at the next Index Review.

Spin-off


Income 100 Index constituent spins off

security

Add spun-off security to the Index with

the constraint factor of the Parent

security, if it is included in the Parent

Index

Conversion Security A converted to B, A deleted from

Parent Index, B added

B inherits constraint factors from A.

Country

Reclassification

Domicile of company reviewed: Security A

deleted from country A, security B added to

country B

B inherits constraint factors from A if it is

added to the Parent Index.

Stock exchange

reclassification

Stock exchange (price source) of company

reviewed: Security A deleted, security B

added

B inherits constraint factors from A if it is

added to the Parent Index.

Other Events

Resulting in

Changes in

Number of

Shares and FIFs

Changes in number of shares and

subsequent FIF resulting from other events

such as share placements and offerings,

and debt-to-equity-swaps

No change in constraint factor



The following sections have been modified since August 2016:

Section 2.2.1: Clarification regarding security selection in cases of same factor scores

The following sections have been modified since June 2016:

Section 2.1: Excluded GICS Industry and Sub-Industry are updated to reflect the changes

to the GICS structure effective September 01, 2016

Section 2.2.1: Included GICS Real Estate Sector in methodology to reflect the changes to

the GICS structure effective September 01, 2016



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